Ugandan comedienne Anne Kansiime has shockingly revealed that she paid her own dowry because she was under pressure to impress her parents.
They overasked for it, and I paid it myself.
In an interview with Wonder Jr, Kansiime revealed that she has never been anyone’s wife because her supposed husband didn’t pay the dowry that her parents asked for.
Kansiime Anne and Skylanta It should be remembered that Anne Kansiime was married to Gerald Ojok for four years before the relationship ended in divorce around 2017.
She then fell in love again with a fellow artist, Skylanta, in 2018, with whom she had a child.
In the interview, she reveals that in the marriage, she had to pay her own dowry because the husband didn’t pay it when the parents asked for it, and she lived a lie until she failed to give birth while with the same man.
She believes it was God’s way of communicating to her.
I have never become a wife. I accused myself so much, paid my own dowry, and convinced the whole world and the man himself that we were married. If you come to my home and they tell you what dowry to pay and you don’t pay it, am I your wife?
I introduced him to my parents, who accepted him and asked him to bring dowry, which he didn’t bring. They overasked for it, and I paid it myself. When I paid, he forgot about it, I forgot about it, and we moved on with life.
It was later, when I was 30, that I was trying to have a child, that I wondered why God wasn’t letting me get pregnant. That makes you think deeper. The God who has given me all these wonderful things without asking is the same God that refused to give me a child?
I wanted to be like my parents; I didn’t want to be the person who gets busy with so many people, so when I met him, I really wanted to make it work. I really wanted a child so badly.
